Weekly Photo Challenge – Tour Guide

We joined a church group to take a city tour in our neighborhood several months ago. We have been living in La Habra, California for twenty-six years. The City of Fullerton is behind the retaining wall in our backyard. We do a lot of thing in Fullerton such as go for walks in Laguna Lake, biking on trails, eat at the restaurants, have my hair done, or go to the hospital. We drive through downtown Fullerton hundreds of times but have never taken a leisure walk in that area.

The tour guide was very knowledgeable of the city history and was very efficient to show us the historic part of Fullerton. Fullerton was founded in 1887. It secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Historically it was a center of agriculture, notably groves of Valencia oranges and other citrus crops.

When we moved to the neighborhood 26 years ago, there were many orange patches. Many homes such as mine have orange trees in the yards. As cities developed, orange patches gave way to offices and housing.

In 1886, the city began negotiations with George H. Fullerton, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, also a Santa Fe subsidiary. They offered free right-of-way and a half interest in the land to the railroad and named the city after him. On July 5, 1887, the negotiation came through and the railroad station is now the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Commonwealth Avenue.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton,_California

We walked 45,000 steps in two hours according to several peoples’ apps.

Miriam, I love this post! I did not know the history of Fullerton, and it was great to read it. My sister actually lived in Fullerton for several years when she was married, probably in the late 1990s. Thanks for the fun fill-in!

We may have a glimpse of the snow then, we’re leaving on Sunday. It’s wonderful that you can keep going to writing conferences. A friend had gone to a writing conference up on the mountain in this area, but it was for people who have written their books… Publishers were there to publish their book. My friend felt rushed and got a bad deal.

Oh, that’s too bad about your friend at the conference for her book. 😦 This is a conference related to my MFA program, and since it’s just in Port Townsend, the travel isn’t too bad – just driving. I’m in the role of conference manager, so I wanted to get here a little early (it starts tomorrow) and make sure all the packets were ready, the sign-in sheet made up, etc. Once it starts I think I’ll be able to relax a little! 🙂 How is Autumn doing?

I remember being the chairperson of a committee that planned the annual parenting conference. Several committee members had walky-talky. The resort conference manager screwed me up one year by not communicating with the kitchen manager.
Autumn talks a lot and smiles a lot, laugh sometime. The talking voice is getting closer to words, not just cooing. We’re excited!

An average person has a stride length of approximately 2.1 to 2.5 feet. That means that it takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile; and 10,000 steps would be almost 5 miles. So it should be 22.5 miles based on google. Based on my cell phone tracker, 10557 steps =2.1km, say roughly 8km plus?

About me

Miriam Hurdle grew up in Hong Kong where she went to college and worked for five years before coming to the United States. While in Hong Kong, she taught Chinese as a Second Language in Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for three years. She was also the Director of Children’s Department at the Asian Outreach where she published four Chinese Children’s books.
Miriam Hurdle came to the United States for her graduate studies. She received her master’s degrees in Christian Ministry from Portland Seminary, Counseling from Seattle Pacific University, and Education Administration from California State University, Los Angles. After teaching in California public school for fifteen years, she was promoted to a school district administrative position. She went on to do the postgraduate studies and earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from La Verne University in California. Dr. Hurdle continued in her administrative position for ten years before her retirement.
In her retired life, Dr. Hurdle enjoys doing volunteer counseling, reading, writing, blogging, singing, drawing, watercolor painting, gardening, photographing, and traveling. Dr. Hurdle is married to Lynton Hurdle and has one married daughter and one granddaughter.